TikTok Ban: What It Means for Sports Fans, Athletes, Teams – Sportico

                        By  <a class="c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-link" href="https://www.sportico.com/author/jacob-feldman/"             >   Jacob Feldman</a>                       <br>Sports Business Reporter<br>    Beginning Sunday morning, U.S. <a  href="https://www.sportico.com/t/tiktok/"  id="auto-tag_tiktok_1"  data-tag="tiktok"  >TikTok</a> users were greeted with a message saying &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t use TikTok for now,&rdquo; after a law went into effect that prevented app stores and internet providers from supporting the service used by 170 million Americans.&nbsp;<br>  TikTok&rsquo;s parent company, China-based ByteDance, previously had the option of selling the U.S. operation, though it has held firm that it would rather shutter the app stateside.&nbsp;<br>    President <a  href="https://www.sportico.com/t/joe-biden/"  id="auto-tag_joe-biden_1"  data-tag="joe-biden"  >Joe Biden</a> initially signed the bill that led to Sunday&rsquo;s action in April. A winding court journey finally ended Friday when the Supreme Court rejected TikTok&rsquo;s attempts to overturn the law. However, incoming President <a  href="https://www.sportico.com/t/donald-trump/"  id="auto-tag_donald-trump_1"  data-tag="donald-trump"  >Donald Trump</a> has shown support for the app and expressed a desire to allow it to continue operating in some form, possibly under new ownership.&nbsp;   <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:300px;min-height:275px;"     class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-sprt-dsk-tab-midarticle-uid0"      class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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